Mr. Jiang, who is himself a senior Communist Party official, seemed sensitive to Xinhua's vaguely sinister reputation.
Twenty years ago the village still had a vaguely sleazy reputation, not least thanks to James Anderton, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police until 1991, who in 1986 accused HIV and Aids patients of "swirling around in a human cesspool of their own making".
Most consumers, he said, choose a homeowner insurance carrier based on the premium quoted, the company's financial soundness or a vague idea about its reputation.
Its chief asset is the young Anny Duperey, one of the most beautiful women in French films (Jean-Luc Godard's "Two or Three Things I Know about Her," Alain Resnais's "Stavisky"), who here plays a newlywed disfigured in a fire; her husband (Philippe Lemaire), an artist of great reputation and vague accomplishments, enlists the help of a mad plastic surgeon to put her back together again.
But Justice Scalia aimed his harshest criticism at the six justices who signed the majority opinion, returning to a theme he pressed last year — that the court is violating its duty and harming its reputation in issuing vague decisions.
He had acquired a glowing reputation in Israel and Europe, but each vaguely geometrical painting was repeating the last.
Tilton's people have declined to comment on allegations they call "vague," "sexist attempts to impugn" her "personal and professional reputation".
According to his wife, who was at his hearing, the judge cited vaguely defined offences such as "distorting the kingdom's reputation" and "inflaming public opinion".
"We must insist on new tangible action that helps vulnerable children protect their bodies, not old vague pledges that help a widely-discredited institution protect its reputation".
Vague offences such as "destabilising society" and "offending the nation's reputation" now count as terrorist acts.
